Syd Straw & Michael Stipe - Future 40's

[cemaphonic]

If this album had come out 5 years later, when Garth Brooks was big on the country side, and Sheryl Crow and Hootie were big on the rock side, it could have been huge. But twangy roots rock was just not what either mainstream top-40, or the growing college-alternative radio was looking for in 1989.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Thanks cemaphonic, music

speaks an universal language. My first time listening to this artist. Loved the message in the music

[underpants]

2. I'd never heard this

Thanks.

[Iggo]

3. Hmm..I had a whole other idea of Syd Straw.

I'm gonna have to rethink that.

Thanks!

[Iggo]

4. So I've been enjoying the last couple of days...

...exploring what she was about when I thought she was totally about something else.

Enjoyable ride it was. Not always my cup of tea, but surprisingly sometimes exactly my cup of tea.

Fun.

Now, along the way (and very early in the trip, I might add), I ran into this video, and I did a "360" when I thought I recognized who was introducing her.

Is that who I think it is?

EDIT: I did a little more digging, and it's David Sanborn. The voice had me more than half convinced it was Anderson Cooper....lol.